...Pang Laikwan To understand the political meanings of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement as a spontaneous movement beyond its immediate political achievements and as part of a larger global movement that used occupation as a tactic, this article explores related activities happening in social media and...

Figure 1 “Umbrella Terms,” an online glossary created for Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement by Helen Fok and her team in 2014. Screenshot courtesy of the author Figure 1. “Umbrella Terms,” an online glossary created for Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement by Helen Fok and her team in 2014. Screenshot
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...Jane Elliott; Gillian Harkins This essay introduces the special issue “Genres of Neoliberalism,” which considers the relationship between neoliberalism and aesthetic formations across a range of sites, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, England, Hong Kong, Kenya, Mali, the Philippines, and the...

Figure 2 Telegram conversations of “Information distribution central station of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong,” 4 October 2014. Screenshot courtesy of the author Figure 2. Telegram conversations of “Information distribution central
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... leader of the copyright discourse and thus should be
held up as the standard to which all other countries’ copyright protection
should aspire. Unlike the situation in Hollywood, the increasing global
popularity of Hong Kong cinema has not led Hong Kong’s major studios,
such as Shaw, to seek more...

... question. This became part of my argument.
In Brazil’s Bahia, I learned what the movimento negro owed to African
America in the United States.1 In Hong Kong in 2001, I saw that the word
identity attached to the name of a place such as Hong Kong indicated yet
another species of collectivity...

... classic cul-
tural texts of the early twentieth century, including Tarzan and King Kong.
In each of these instances, I argue that a form of “ocular anthro-
pomorphism” is employed, or, a process of humanization deeply tied not
only to the rhetoric of visual representation, but also, and...

... Pennsylvania Press), is forthcoming in 2010.
Laikwan Pang is a professor of cultural studies in the Department of Cul-
tural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She
is the author of Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-wing
Cinema Movement, 1932–37 (Rowman and...

... eld) and (as a coauthor) Global Hollywood 2
(British Film Institute).
Laikwan Pang teaches ﬁ lm and cultural studies in the Department of
Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
She is the author of Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-Wing
Cinema...

... Kong transnational cosmopolitans and
Cambodian refugees, Ong examines the processes by which various civil
institutions and social groups assess and locate these newcomers within
given schemes of racial difference, civilization, and economic worth (738).
Writing against the universalized category...

... visualized as militarized spaces of a present-future ruin. The video focuses on Hong Kong human rights movements, death in the streets against the constant threat of the nuclear option. Toward the end of a thirty-minute film, we see bodies in motion amid hellish worlds and then a live performance. What...

... accompany him to Singapore over the summer. In a flash, this juicy bit of gossip travels the world, bouncing from New York to California to Singapore to Shanghai to Hong Kong to Marrakech to London, from design students to former Miss Taiwans to venture capitalists to Instant Noodle heiresses or, in other...

...: Philippine Historical Experience
and the Makings of Globalization (Duke University Press) and Fantasy-
Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the
New World Order (Hong Kong University Press and Ateneo de Manila
University Press).
Livia Tenzer is the managing...

... boundaries of the nation-state, or at least outside of its systems of taxation, customs, and immigration (in the case of special economic zones for noncitizens). These zones are spaces of condensation: the financial centers of Hong Kong or Singapore, the global corporate headquarters in Jebel Ali in Dubai...

...
successfully evolved past shackles of tradition such as the discrimination
against women.23 Here, the human refers to precisely what is not Chinese,
namely, what distinguishes the citizens of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the
diaspora...